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January 4, 2010

Google's Animated Doodle

Google's US homepage uses an animation to celebrate Isaac Newton's birthday. After loading the page, an apple falls from the tree to illustrate Newton's theory of gravity.

It's the first time when Google uses an animated doodle on its homepage. Now that users got used to the fade-in animation that exposes Google's navigation links, Google will try new ways to make the homepage more interactive.

Some people actually overlooked it. Some people don't even go to the google homepage anymore. They use other search query mediums. This is a disadvantage to Google, because they could really promote new things features on their site. There are so many things about Google, people don't even know about.

Putting it in a search results ad wouldn't work, because people become conditioned to ignore ad sections.